Comment by Scriptacus:
Patch for this issue should be live now
ANOTHER VERY OPTYMISTIC POST FROM SCRIPTACUS ON REDDIT o_0 😬
Honestly not sure at this point. Given that I don't have an ETA, I'll throw out one idea that one user reported fixed their issue. He said even though -maxthreads didn't work, he changed the number of cores available to Windows to 4 (in the windows settings) and he said that it resolved the issue for him. If you're feeling ambitious, you might give it a try. Here's a link on how to do it: https://smallbusiness.chron.com/set-number-cores-windows-29171.html
Right, it seems that fix is not going to happen any time soon, so I've played around with affinity:
5 cores for origin.exe - 10 games, 1 crash
4 cores for origin.exe - 10 games, 0 crash
Also at this point, I can recognize the moment when the game should've been hung. Right before the hanging game freezes for a second or two, but then keeps running. Without 4 core affinity the game hangs at such moments with probability 99,9.
